Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, ...

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, ...

Astronomers from our Physics department have discovered a striking and unexplained shock wave surrounding a dead star. The ...

This may come as a shock, if you're moving fast enough. The shock being shock waves. A balloon's 'pop' is shock waves generated by exploded bits of the balloon moving faster than the speed of sound.

George Duvall, 82, whose groundbreaking work advanced scientists’ understanding of shock-wave physics, died Jan. 6 of unspecified causes. Duvall pioneered the study of shock-wave propagation in solids ...

Hypersonic flow and shock wave dynamics represent a critical domain in aerospace science, where the physics of high-speed fluid motion are explored under extreme thermodynamic and chemical conditions.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Sandia National Laboratories physicists Mark Boslough and Dave Crawford predicted the Hubble Space Telescope would see a rising vapor plume as the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crashed ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star’s surroundings and create a shock wave.

Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf, the remnant core of a dead star creating shockwaves as it moves through space. The ...